Asian American? Chinese French? Vietnamese Italian? Korean Japanese? Filipino Mexican?
Do you ever feel misunderstood or silenced down?
Do you feel like you’ve been otherized, sexualized, objectified or patronized?
And do those feelings have anything to do with your Asian-ness?
Racism is not only about throwing rocks at people and telling them to go back to their own country.
Racism is also this:
Because no one cares about your racial fetish.
And this:
Because not all Asians do or should look like K-pop stars or anime characters.
And this, too:
Mangaka means cartoonist in Japanese. It’s not a status you can earn by entering a country.
Or, even this:
Uhm, because Memoirs of a Geisha isn’t even written by an Asian author and it has nothing to do with Asian voice? Also probably because not all Asians are Japanese?
Yellow Fever Archive is my record, your
record, and OUR record of racism against Asians.
Submit your writings, selfies, photos,
drawings, anxieties, sorrows and jokes to yellowfeverarchive@gmail.com or
directly to the submit page on this blog!
(or just send a message, I check it too!)
Your stories will be posted anonymously if wanted!
Do submit:
-Any story of prejudice, discrimination, misrepresentation you’ve experienced as Asian, expressed in any kind of uploadable format
-Selfie holding a sketchbook with a
statement on it (I get it, it’s a bit cheesy, but it’s ok to hold up the sketchbook once in a while)
-Stupid cartoons
-Serious paintings
-Ramblings
-Videos
-Animations
-Memes
-Celebrity quotes
-Songs
-Recorded sounds
-Intelligent things you’ve read online
-Blog posts
-Tweet screenshots
-Basically anything else that doesn’t
potentially get you in trouble
Don’t submit:
-Revenge porn (will potentially get you in trouble)